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> Despite benevolent anthropomorphism, robots aren't much loved by humans. That brings to mind the hitchBOT [1] experiment from 2013 to 2015. It did well - hel
by samizdis 4y ago
> Despite benevolent anthropomorphism, robots aren't much loved by humans.
That brings to mind the hitchBOT [1] experiment from 2013 to 2015. It did well - helped by media attention - in parts of Europe and Canada, but later came to grief in Philadelphia [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
[2] HN comment thread on HitchBOT destroyed in Philadelphia, ending U.S. tour
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990881